All politicians are hypocrites

“The Official Secrets Act should not be used to hide untruths” – How true and I fully agree with this remark. But sadly I think former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad is in no position to say this.

After all, it was his administration which started the practice of hiding behind this Act to cover incompetence, cronyism or nepotism.

Who was the Prime Minister when the Attorney General relied on this Act to charge opposition leader Ezam Md Noor for revealing documents which showed Trade Minister Rafidah was corrupt? Ezam was found guilty for breaching the OSA in that case.

It got so worse that even the police started saying some of their investigations and investigative papers fell under the ISA, as such could not be revealed to the press. Didn’t Mahathir feel that it was wrong to abuse the OSA then?

And now Mahathir has the cheeks to say that Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s administration should not hide under this Act.

What do they say? That all politicians are hypocrites? Mahathir just showed us the veracity of that accusation.